Jim Allister - Easter Rising "some foreign old grubby rebellion"

[@matttaylor4228]

Im a protestant irishman my ancestor roger casement was at the easter rising and yes all the traditions should be celebrated from both sides and may peace be with everyone.

[@telegrapherlady8510]

+owen O'Neill Casement was a great humanitarian! As for his "lifestyle" well that was his own business.

[@Lisnageeragh]

I knew and was reared among many Irish Protestant men....the best of men!!

[@danieldineen8791]

That is why the flag is green for nationlist white for peace Orange for protastant

[@danieldineen8791]

@phyllis brady So u are sayin the 4th of July should not be celebrated by the Americans

[@MichaelScott261]

Thankfully very few in England take these unionist politicians seriously and think they're pathetic.

[@paulmcgettigan9068]

Jim allisters prehistoric views are pushing people to a united Ireland quicker than anyone ever thought. Thank you Jim

[@jbv776]

i liked this comment but unliked it, thought it should stay at 32.

[@joprocter4573]

Actually he is correct.. Pakistan n India don't behave like irish

[@RazorMouth]

@@joprocter4573

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@joprocter4573 that's because the Irish were taught if someone punches you in the face you punch back

[@joprocter4573]

No he is exactly what it says on he tin. Loyal to united Kingdom as have been ancestors. Since ice age before pirates violated place and called it Ireland. Civil war against own ppl is NOTHING TO CELEBRATE neither is the 40thousand protestant Union ppl air brushed in Irish history. A terrorist war a real war deserves victims n family's to commenerate but its like school bully getting a prize for mass murder.. Out of question not same tone.

[@IrishModelRail]

I still find it hard to believe that some unionists still say the Easter Rising was a failure.

[@brendanw45]

It was a ''failure'' in their eyes simply because it was a right and noble cause that got rid of a shower of murderous cowards from a beautiful country they were never invited into and where their history - as with just about everywhere they ever set foot - is absolutely shameful (and they - the Brits - know it).

[@IrishModelRail]

Amen:)

[@TheMATTYB1234]

It was a failure in almost every way: They tried to import guns - failed. They tried to get European support - failed. They tried to get American support - failed. They tried to recruit Irish POW's in Germany - failed. They tried to hold Dublin for 30 days until Ireland rose- failed twice over. The Proclamation suggested the republic would guarantee ‘religious and civil liberty, equal rights and opportunities’ and would ‘pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation … cherishing all the children of the nation equally’. FAILED!!!!!!!

[@IrishModelRail]

I'm not going to bother arguing because you obviously know nothing about Irish history, at least from this period:)

[@brendanw45]

TheMATTYB1234 Ignoramus.

[@Shay-bp7yt]

Don't worry Jim you ll live to see Ireland United 🇮🇪

[@BB-hz7sw]

very shortly ha ha ha ha

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Called him a gammon in the comments section of his debate in Trinity college where the crowd laughed at him

[@joprocter4573]

No comparison at all. The rebellion was not with vote of the ppl of Ireland. It was grubby it murdered 40thousand just before 1916.they knew they the 7 terrorist who started it.. Had the real war not been on the Irish would have put to vote n action Peacefully as pipeline was clearing towards that

[@RazorMouth]

@@joprocter4573

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@joprocter4573 cretin.

[@sudocreme5080]

1:10. So should the Orange Order not celebrate the Battle of the Boyne since it is also in the Republic of Ireland? Any excuse so that people aren't able to celebrate unless you agree with it.

[@cheeseeater9995]

You legend

[@61505]

yeah, its about a culture,not what country one,s in as to whether the easter rising or the battle of the Boyne is celebrated.

[@sudocreme5080]

Desmond 1934 true. But that wasn't the argument Jim made. He said the reason he wouldn't want the rebellion celebrated was because it was in "some grubby foreign place". When it was pointed out that the Battle of the Boyne was in the south, then he panicked. He's a bigot, he's trying to use any excuse he can. If you want to celebrate the 12th that's fine, but if you are allowed to celebrate then Nationalists should be allowed to celebrate the rebellion.

[@61505]

not in 1690.but the native Irish in Ireland had the identity of being Irish and not British.A republic of Ireland was declared in 1916 but was officially declared the Irish free state with 26 counties, essentially an independent entity and completely independent as the Republic of Ireland in 1949

[@61505]

the only problem with both celebrations within Northern Ireland is the glorification of violence and associating with the troubles of 1969 -1994 as though that particular violence was some sort of freedom movement from both sides

[@chrisclark1761]

The people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have more in common than the people of Northern Ireland and England.

[@johnnygreen200]

The people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are the same people bar the Scottish foreign planters.

[@chrisclark1761]

Today they are very different people. The people of all sides of the community in NI have more in common with each other than they do with those in GB or ROI. They can also collectively identify with their shared past moreso than any outsider.

[@johnnygreen200]

***** I have to disagree with you there. There is no NI culture, it is a country barely 90 years old! The Catholic nationalist people in NI have much more in common with the rest of the Irish as they are one and the same people historically and share Irish culture, language sport GAA etc. A Donegal man and a Catholic from Co.Down have much more in common than a Catholic from Co.Down and a Loyalist from the Shankill. Apart from accent, what do they have in common?, and the other Ulster counties in Ulster which are often forgot about by unionists, Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan. The Unionist people have alienated themselves with their dismissal and repulsion of all things Irish. I would agree however that a Unionist from NI has more in common with someone from ROI than with someone from England even if they wouldn't want to admit it or not.

[@chrisclark1761]

Walter White Fair point. Perhaps what would be more accurate is for me to say that I feel a Unionist and a Nationalist from the 6counties would have more in common with each other than they would with me. I can only imagine that a person from "the Mainland" would feel even more detached.

[@nimuaythai]

Walter White I think that this is a gross oversimplification of the facts. Maybe (and I know many exceptions), what you said is true for loyalist or nationalist "strongholds", but not for all of the country. Many people here have grown up in mixed communities, or certainly communities that don't dismiss all things of their supposedly opposite number. The youth of the country mix with near impunity through university and college. Admittedly, geographical and educational divides exist and there are places where communities have isolated themselves, but (and I hate this strange youtube thing of trying to assert your own validity by stating what you "are") as someone who was raised protestant in a predominantly protestant community, I have a lot in common my many Catholic friends, and I find that most of my friendship groups are totally mixed. I think that Northern Ireland needs to stop compartmentalizing itself into two factions and realize that there is far more diversity of thought and perception within its disputed borders than the majority of the eejits in Stormont want to accept.

[@teamblitz1990]

Jurassic Jim Allister a man forever stuck in the past.

[@timpatjoe]

That Jim wouldn't be out of place in a Munich Beer hall in the 1930s

[@michaelahern6821]

His has the rhetoric of Barney the Dinosaur..

[@oscarosullivan4513]

DUP Dinosaur unionist party

[@rachel.mcgowan]

Or a music hall in the 1930s. Better than most stand-ups this clown is.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Head on him like a ripped slipper

[@jackietreehorn5561]

He does a good goose step

[@nollaigmac]

In 1916, Belfast was under the same jurisdiction as the rest of Ireland so it didn't just happen in the Republic Of Ireland as Jim Allister suggests, it happened in the Island of Ireland which was all under the same sovereignty at the time.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Well said

[@tellitlikeitis4740]

Correct....his grasp of the facts ....for a supposedly educated man... is awful....ignorant bigot..

[@monrush]

Under British rule?…..

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Technically not sovereign then

[@IrishBoyASMR]

​@@monrush Do you think we fought British rule for centuries for the laugh of it or something? When people fight, they fight for a good reason and when a nation fights it's because something was taken away from them! After the Norman/English Invasion of Ireland in the 1100s, we then had Planters arrive as per The Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century which involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of land with settlers from Britain. We fought back: The two Desmond Rebellions took place in 1569-1573 and 1579-1583 to *fight against the threat of the extension of the English government* over the province. The successful Battle of Clontibret was *fought against the British* in County Monaghan in 1595. The successful Battle of the Yellow Ford was *fought against the British* in County Armagh in 1598. The Nine Years' War, sometimes called Tyrone's Rebellion took place in Ireland from 1593 to 1603. It was fought between an Irish alliance to *fight against English rule in Ireland.* The Rebellion of 1641 took place when Irish Catholics were being threatened by expansion of the anti-Catholic English Parliament and Scottish Planters and they *rebelled against English and Protestant domination.* The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was a major uprising *against British rule in Ireland.* (The Society of United Irishmen was led primarily by liberal Protestants). The Irish wanted an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and to roll back the Plantations of Ireland. The Irish rebellion of 1803 was launched by Irish republicans *against British rule in Ireland* The Easter Rising of 1916 was piloted by Irish republicans *against British rule in Ireland* with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic. The civil rights movement in the early 1960s challenged the inequality and discrimination against ethnic Irish Catholics that was perpetrated by the Ulster Protestant community. Derry activists' marched on the 5 October 1968 in Derry, but were attacked by the RUC and loyalists. THAT IS A SNAPSHOT OF HOW WE HAVE FOUGHT AND RESISTED BOTH BRITISH RULE AND DISCRIMINATION BY THE UNIONIST COMMUNITY!

[@Seainin1]

Have to say it, McWilliams was brilliant, absolute classic.

[@Minime163]

In fairness anyone with a brain including a 5 year old child should be able to show jim and sammy up the most alarming thing in the video was that jim made sammy look like he might have 1 or 2 brainsells left

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

Some of the arguments put forward by the Unionists in this clip defy belief. If it weren't for the Easter Rising, NI may never have been established, as prior to that event, most people in the 26 counties favoured home rule. The alternative model at that time was a 32 county state, under British rule, with a devolved parliament in Dublin. But after the executions of the rebel leaders, Irish independence became the preference of the majority of Irish people, and a very real proposition, leading to the Irish War of Independence and subsequent partition of Ireland. So to claim that the Easter Rising had nothing to do with the formation of NI is patent nonsense.

[@joprocter4573]

Formation of Ireland Republic

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

@@joprocter4573 Firstly, there’s no such country. And secondly, given partition, the historical events that gave rise to the Irish Free State also gave rise to Northern Ireland. It would be silly to suggest otherwise.

[@joprocter4573]

@@TheLastAngryMan01 therefore you have no future when fail to acknowledge foundations.

[@joprocter4573]

@@TheLastAngryMan01 NORTHERN IRELAND a lovely place invaded by Irish who pirated it of British but gall call it theirs

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

@@joprocter4573 You’re very deluded, LOL. Have a nice week!

[@rickgrimes5233]

Just as Jim Allister states that 1690 was of European significance, the Easter Rising was of British significance as it marked the beginning of the breakup of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland.

[@fyto2418]

#truth

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Likely continuing breakup

[@hoopy6781]

European indeed when the Pope of the day blessed William and success in the battle of the Boyne. They don't like it up em. ❤️🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@icemanire5467]

​@@hoopy6781 revisionist history. A guy stated that 20 years ago and he was severely reaching.

[@themaskedman221]

@@icemanire5467 What's 'revisionist' history supposed to mean?

[@BatTaz19]

The Republic didn't exist in 1916. So that's not where it happened. Loyalists/Unionists must be encouraged to talk as much as possible. They can't help digging themselves deeper into shit with every word they speak.

[@reddeadgamer5481]

the republic still doesnt exist we have an irish free state and the north part of the uk

[@steveperry8031]

'It happened in Dublin and Dublin is in the Republic .....we don't want your Easter Rising , your Gaelic language , your hurling , camogie .....No thanks ......we are British .

[@BatTaz19]

Steve Perry WHEN the Rising took place, Dublin was within the British Empire. It was occupied by a foreign military, and administered by a foreign civil service. Loyalists and Unionists continuously expose the illogic of their 'identity' with their twisted use of language. The English language, no less! The border between the 26 counties and the 6 counties is an artificial construct. It is untenable. Continuously shouting "We're British", with an Irish accent is risible. The nordies who venture across the water to "the mainland" are regularly shattered to realise that their cousins see them as Paddies. Re-unification, for good or bad, is inevitable. Embrace the future of a New Ireland, or return to the motherland.

[@Lixsna]

Recent an all past events have shown that you cannot afford to waste time and energy engaging with Northern Ireland Unionist/loyalist representatives. They are utterly psychopathic, totally deluded and of limited intelligence, as are the people they represent.

[@frankrizla8665]

@@steveperry8031 You're only as british as London says you are. You're easily bought with english money you're easily sold:)

[@irishdc9523]

So the Battle of the Boyne, which was part of the sectarian wars throughout Europe, is important, but the Easter Rising, which laid the foundation of an independent country and inspired revolutions in Europe, isn't.

[@jmagowan12]

I thought the same, not least as it was the first of many popular revolutions that brought about the end of WW1.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

And the pope blessed king billy before it

[@phillydee67runningbear61]

that grubby little place Jim refers to was the birthplace of Edward Carson, who was the first signer of the Ulster Covenant. And that grubby place was in 1916 part of the so called Empire.

[@pauldunneska]

Very accurate!

[@dod4004]

'So called' empire? It was indeed an empire, was it not? 😄

[@garsm2290]

The anniversary of Ray Houghton's goal against Italy should be a public holiday ....

[@ConnbineHarvester]

Not so sure about that, we don't want the Loyalists shooting up another pub full of football fans.

[@paulbradynsno8513]

Filthy little kopite

[@sudocreme5080]

Jim Allister makes Donald Trump look like a serious and reasonable politician

[@activeterror9995]

And 1 year later, here we are.

[@sudocreme5080]

Activeterror fuck. It's scary how they both got elected

[@activeterror9995]

Nah mate, 8 great years ahead for the US ;) The north is collapsing in on itself though

[@activeterror9995]

if you can thoroughly explain to me how trump is failing, I will humor you.

[@sudocreme5080]

Activeterror supporting a travel ban which discriminates against people based on religion and not risk of terrorism. Wanting to dismantle the Affordable Care act, which (he claims) will insure more people and be less costly. Even though he couldn't even get his own party to support it. Focusing on deporting people who illegally entered the US (some over 20 years ago) instead of focusing on more pressing issues; Guns, terrorism, healthcare, infrastructure, education... what benefit does deporting a 25 year old who has lived in the US since they were 5 have? They have already proved they don't intend on killing people or causing any sort of trouble. Mr Trump (along with a lot of Americans) is that he doesn't seem to realise that Islamic terrorism is a very small issue. Terrorist attacks have been on the decline since 2008 in the US, and in 2011, 4 deaths were the result of Islamic extremists, while 9 were the result of Right wing extremists. (Source at bottom) Is Trump stamping down on Christian terrorists? A man in Colorado went in to an abortion clinic and killed 3 pregnant women and injuring 9 more. Why didn't this get the same kind of coverage as the Boston Marathon? Probably because "Christian fundamentalist" didn't have the same ring to it as "Islamic terrorist" to Fox News viewers. Also, there were 15 deaths out of a population of 322 million is extremely small (0.00000005%). Yet why is this such a big issue for some Americans? I've lived in the North of Ireland all my life, where the chances of getting caught up in something are substantially higher, yet I don't live in constant paranoia of being blown up. And finally, Trump was a very effective Presidential candidate. He got people who felt let down by the system, who hated people like Hillary Clinton and everything they stood for and got them motivated and angry and he made promises he couldn't uphold. Like the wall, or travel ban or affordable care act. Because he didn't realise that being president doesn't give you unlimited powers. He's flip flopped on issues so much it's impossible to know where he stands. He went into a meeting with China's leader totally convinced that North Korea could be easily dealt with. Xi Jiping then explained the history of China and Korea briefly in only 10 minutes and that was enough for him to change his mind. That's scary because either his hardline stances on subjects are uninformed and based solely on emotion or he is extremely easily manipulated and seeing as his main source of information seems to be Breitbart instead of White House briefings, that should be concerning. Source:d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/unaddressed-threats.jpg

[@tomhassell7985]

"Another country" Some things never change

[@saabsonsan]

The battle of boyne. Some grubby failed battle 400 years ago in some foreign land

[@celticlofts]

He's right, the 1916 Rising was a failure - but that failure is the very reason why we have our independence today. When the British decided to execute the leaders of that Rebellion all they managed to do was turn the Irish population against them. Once that happened, and the fighting started again, the British had no way of winning it. When you lose the people you lose the war.

[@aaronkeane2336]

Delighted David McWilliams was there to expose his bigotry! Brilliant stuff!

[@pauldunneska]

Exactly!

[@RazorMouth]

And David is married to a northern Prod, he's from the soup taker side in the Republic I believe 😂

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@RazorMouth sure that means nothing in the south

[@peadarocoileain902]

@@RazorMouth No, I don't think so, as I David is a Protestant himself.

[@RazorMouth]

@@peadarocoileain902 Methodist

[@TheRisingOf16]

You as an imperialist as any imperialist will know that it was the beginning of the end for the British Empire that was built on slavery, bloodshed and theft that you love so dearly. Keep flying your butcher's apron with pride.

[@joprocter4573]

Go back to sleep that indoctrinated info is cobblers

[@themaskedman221]

There were of course positive and negative aspects to the British Empire. History is complicated my friend.

[@jameshingley4300]

He says a a grubby foreign place he celebrates the battle of the boyne that happend in that same grubby place has the easter the hypocrit oh and by the way im english (not british)

[@jameshingley4300]

whats that got to do with it the easter rising was political to so whats the diffrence both happend in eire problem with northern ireland they say there british but wont except british law

[@stephenperry7551]

who cares if you are English , just because you are English does not mean you are not stupid ....fcuk off.

[@Daisy-ct3nh]

James Hingley aye,and Carson was a Dub!!

[@RobertK1993]

edelno5 blaa He was also very proud to be Irish played GAA sports and disliked the Orange Order and saw NI be turned into a third world backward part of the UK and the Empire.

[@TY-gh2yf]

@@stephenperry7551 they were saying that to try to negate the idea that you'd strike down their idea over bogus terms.

[@paddykavanagh3503]

most unionists are decendents of Scots that were sent over to ulster during the time of the plantations, they are not Irish they are British and should have no say of what goes on in our country! What would the English say if Ireland sent over 20,000 people and threw people off they're land and changed laws to favour Irish catholic's?

[@barryscarfe2461]

paddy Farrell How long back to you wish to go? What Irish Republicans can't stand is the fact these people are IRISH BUT ALSO have a BRITISH identity as well and so wish to remain part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. NI is basically the British part of Ireland and they don't like this fact one little bit but it remains a fact anyway.

[@paddykavanagh3503]

+Barry Scarfe If they want a British identity why are they in Ireland? If they love the UK so much why don't they move. They have no place in Ireland. The only reason they are on the Island is because of colonialism. These people aren't Irish.

[@barryscarfe2461]

Surely they are Irish but with a British identity as well? I have read that many of them (and probably the majority) have Irish ancestors along with Scottish/Welsh and some English too. They originally came from Ireland settled mostly in Scotland and then moved back to Ireland.

[@barryscarfe2461]

All the peoples of these islands are interelated if you go back far enough though some people unfortunately pretend that we are not.

[@paddykavanagh3503]

Barry Scarfe well most of us are celts around these neck of the woods but people are confused of what their ancestors have done to Irish people, and then have the nerve to call themselves irish? The only people these people are here is because of British colonialism and greed.

[@eddiestaunton514]

If this was down South the Audience would be in stitches

[@Sean-sn9ld]

"This is not about you, this is about the future" Fuckin love it

[@OldSkoolWax]

If this was slam poetry David McWilliams would have dropped the mic and walked off stage.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

What I only discovered recently is that the pope blessed king billy and his troops before going into war on that fateful day....funny the loyalists never talk about that.....they loved the pope that day

[@taintabird23]

David McWilliams made me laugh out loud!

[@WolfeTone66]

The sheer ignorance & bigotry in Jim Allisters comment about the 1916 rebellion is breathtaking. It’s a pointed insult to Irish republicans & Irish history in general. He can identify as a Unionist & British all day long, but he was born on the Island of Ireland so he’s also a “foreigner” whether he likes it or not.

[@joprocter4573]

Talking rubbish. Learn history

[@bigg5582]

Was funny when mcwilliams reminded allister that the battle of boyne shouldnt be celebrated either as it took place in a foreign country..lol..well owned..

[@pauldunneska]

David McWilliams a great Irish Southern Protestant United Irishman.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Handed jim his arse

[@georgedoherty962]

I just love our Jim. He is pure of heart and wears it on his sleeve. I recall Jim sitting next to John O,Doherty, who was chairman of Gay Pride. Jim was sitting in a crouched position next to John and as the debate progressed, he relaxed a little. However, O,Doherty was waxing lyrical about some point or other and the look on Jim,s face told you that Jim really wanted to be a thousands miles away from the bearded O,Doherty. Suddenly John tapped Jim on the elbow to empathise a point he was making. Jim jumped like his sphincter had been ruptured. He gave that startled look of awe, He had been touched by a man..I recall the hysterical laughter from my wife who had been recording the program. Later she replayed the incident and you could see the fright in Jim,s eyes. Do you know what that means she laughted. I had no idea what she was talking about. Women are more aware of these things than men are. I now believe she was correct.

[@briandelaney9710]

Would love to have seen that

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Jim's not gay but his boyfriend is

[@georgedoherty962]

@@jackietreehorn5561 john O Doherty was chairman of Belfast Gay Pride back then and openly gay, if that is who you are referring to as the "boyfriend". The video of Our wee Jim spewing his anti Catholic bile in an Orange hall " up to the eyes in Fenian blood" was doing the rounds at the time. There are certain ethics that barristers must supposedly live by in order to be seen as fair and open minded because they simply cannot ply their trade otherwise. They would be torn apart on the floor, like a boxer with his wrists bound behind his back. Jim is this enigma who chants the bile to be one of the lads. There is quite a bit of anti orange blowback from the press. The press gave headlines to Andrew McDade and boy did Andrew and Rhonda pay the price. It is only a matter of time before they reach for "wee Jimbo"^

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@georgedoherty962 he's seen more helmets than hitler

[@whiteheart5811]

Classic....King Billy had the same reaction too I hear when a strapping young soldier had to drag him out of the Boyne after falling from his horse.

[@nickmccartan8128]

Jim Allister just can't help making himself look like a massive bellend. I could watch that clip all day long

[@specialsnowflake9699]

Robert Kelly and jims the bigot lol the irony at least he isnt a murder

[@SuperAlbinoBob]

Robert Kelly wha is a UVF human

[@specialsnowflake9699]

He wasn't as he is a lawyer yes a real job

[@Jie67]

Special snowflake you do know hun is in the dictionary, i suggest looking it up.

[@RobertK1993]

SuperAlbinoBob Gunman are you denying Protestants don’t have blood of the innocent on their hands UVF killed many Catholics with no IRA connections same with the UDA because they were Catholics.

[@Oliver9402]

They are angry because they are all having to get swimming lessons for when the day comes to swim back home to the lowlands of scotland and england. Bless them, we wish em well in their little orange inflatable rafts.

[@gezzarandom]

Even Sammy Wilson found it funny, what does that tell you? lol

[@TheFreeEire]

4:49....hits Jim with a hammer

[@pauldunneska]

True!🇮🇪👍

[@A_Maus_in_Da_Haus]

And Jim's some domestic old grubby politician. But well done, Jim Allister, you managed to make Sammy Wilson sound reasonable.

[@chrisclark1761]

Sammy Wilson says that these events pertain to another country. In that case you can say that the Queen's Birthday pertains to England. Why not ban celebration of either the 1916 rising or the Queen's Birthday and use a day in common for celebration.

[@elvisischrist]

Fight the occupation!! We here in America stand up for our Irish brothers. A unified Ireland - a complete country again!!!

[@MrBoomer1966]

You in American haven't got a clue.

[@fyrdman2185]

Shut it yank

[@ireland3360]

Just saying but the Battle of the Boyne took place in the Republic of Ireland Jim

[@pauldunneska]

Well it wasn't the Republic of Ireland in 1690 but I know what you mean.

[@glensargent647]

@@pauldunneska either was the Republic of Ireland in 1916

[@BurgessTV]

Border poll please!

[@123G-r4d]

david mcwilliams nailed it

[@clareomalley5644]

1916 rekindled the independence movement which led to British withdrawal in 1921, which conceivably led to the push for independence in India in 1948. Quite a pivotal event I think .

[@MarkHarrison733]

Britain never withdrew. World War I caused the Indian independence movement.

[@alanmoorehead2456]

jeez when will it all stop! let's just give our kids a chance !😈 really fed up with the crap with these old has beings . GO AWAY PLEASE!

[@Dannydantimpat]

The 1916 rising began the modern quest for Irish freedom . It also began the demise of the British empire . It’s no wonder that Jim Mac Allister isn’t celebrating .

[@joprocter4573]

You were British

[@aodhanmorris3410]

@@joprocter4573 Never were

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@aodhanmorris3410 he's over here on holiday

[@Emerald007007]

These Loyalist supporters leave me absolutely flabbergasted sometimes with their thinking. Educated men and woman coming out with some of the logic that they do is dumfounding. Sometimes I think they are joking and sometimes I just think they are deluding themselves.

[@jopmars8168]

A previous leader of the DUP believes that the earth is only between 3 or 6 thousand years old, that's what you're up against, stupidity on an epic scale.

[@michaelahern6821]

I'd like to point out to Jim that there would have been no IRA bombs or atrocities if it wasn't for him and his like and their treatment of the Nationalist community...

[@uinvin]

McAllister is incorrect when he states that the Rising took place in the Republic of Ireland. Ireland was not a Republic until 1949. Its official name is Ireland as it was in 1916 before the island was forcibly partitioned in 1921 under the threat of further state violence from Westminster.

[@shinneybuckles]

my god where to begin on this

[@joeywhyte156]

Well done jim👍😄love seeing people like that making a fool of them selfs

[@rickgrimes5233]

David McWilliams ftw. Fucking epic.

[@TheRisingOf16]

It was BBC Spotlight, a few months ago

[@jamescopen9817]

some of these dinosaurs should work on the sites in london....theyed be called paddies

[@petermahon6558]

The indigenous people of Northern Ireland should be able to have their own commerations.

[@pauldunneska]

The Native Gaelic Irish in the occupied stolen six counties of Ulster you mean?

[@proudinfidel2194]

@@pauldunneska Yes Paul. I'm in Oz and aboriginals here have their own flag flown outside parliament and acknowledgment is given to them at most civil occasions in contrast native Irish aren't given the same respect.

[@niallgray6721]

What has the queen ever done for the average Brit? .....nothing. What did the men and women who died in 1916 do for the average Irish citizen? They started a movement towards independence, which in the end would lead to the beginning of an Irish republic! Tell me again what the queen has done for any of ye lately.....

[@barryscarfe2461]

Niall Gray What has your President done for you personally? I suspect he has done nothing. The Queen is our Head of State so when she goes abroad she represents our country in state visits just like your President does. That is what she 'does' for us.

[@RobertK1993]

Barry Scarfe Mr Higgins worked all his life to help his constituents unlike the Queen.

[@Ryan_Winter]

Never heard of the Battle at the Boyne before I got into Irish history. And as far as I know did it indeed happen between two men who claimed to be the king of Ireland. The UK didn't exist yet. Queen Anne Stuart united it. So yes, one could argue, that the loyalists are actually royalists, but Irish nonetheless.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Ireland backed Charles the first

[@glensargent647]

@@oscarosullivan4513 no irish people surferd for it. English Lords in ireland supported it.

[@rapier1954]

While Allister is at it he should celebrate the fact that the Pope backed William of Orange. The Easter Rising did not technically take place in a foreign country because Ireland was not divided at the time.

[@greatone7314]

This was brilliant by McWilliams lol

[@uinvin]

Wolfe Tone was a protestant. The father of Irish Republicanism. Huge credit to McWilluams for giving McAllister and Wilson a history lesson

[@gerrymac651]

This foreign,other country,other place nonsense should have been discarded by Unionists decades ago,the vast majority of Irish people (unionist or nationalist) feel Ireland is one country at some level or other,the battle of the Boyne quip by McWilliams will haunt Allister and other like minded loyalists for good while LOL.

[@TY-gh2yf]

It's not about territory now, but about hearts. I took that from an ex ira bomb maker who was trying to make amends. I'm English (go on spew your cursive, but I haven't been of voting age to fuck off), but a clear constitutional choice needs to be made. Either or. Or perhaps, a separate state as its just a drain on both sides.

[@joprocter4573]

Time you went to less indoctrination schools

[@PeterGreen-t8c]

Celebrates the 12th of July and the Battle of the Boyne which also took place in that "grubby foreign country". In ya face Jimbo

[@Tehgoat]

Jim is OK with me, he splits the Unionist vote.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

A silver lining

[@kevinjackson292]

What is clear is that the Unionists need to learn about the history of Ireland.

[@paulrickards4550]

Jim Ireland was Irish before any part was ever British

[@joprocter4573]

No archaeological digs have proved Irish are not from place called Ireland. They invaded scotti

[@abenaid11]

At the time of the Rising there was only one Ireland. It was a fantastic rebellion. Boys up against the great Empire ....and won.

[@MarkHarrison733]

The Easter Rising was crushed within a week.

[@abenaid11]

@@MarkHarrison733 That was only the start.

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@abenaid11 The IRA lost.

[@montpelier42d]

McAllister is a looney.

[@JohnJohnson-zw1kd]

that ' grubby rebellion ' brought about the beginning of the end of the British Empire. Today the Unionists can celebrate kowtowing to their ' royal ' individuals as much as they like.And they're welcome to keep Northern Ireland and the quagmire that it is.

[@grahamfleming8139]

I don't know being Protestant involves 150 million lives ! thank goodness Christian peace rules the empire is dead.

[@rambler20111]

I am a Unionist from E. Belfast and I think that Jim Allister is an over paid grubby little man. People like him give reasonable, tolerant and inclusive Unionists a bad name and it's people like him who will ultimately destroy the union.

[@michaelahern6821]

I'm amazed he never got a knighthood.. 😁

[@desmondhull5778]

If your a Unionist I'm the Easter bunny.😊

[@rambler20111]

@@desmondhull5778 Go easy on them carrots.

[@desmondhull5778]

@@rambler20111 What's up doc?😆

[@whiteheart5811]

McWilliams is a legend!!

[@bepsi6204]

Up the Irish !!!!!

[@simonhill591]

Wasn’t the battle of the Boyne in the the republic Jim?

[@chrisplummer336]

isn't the battle of the Boyne some foreign old grubby rebellion?

[@cdog1990able]

My lord the Unionists are daft

[@johngreene81]

Gambit sets its self up. Target in sight? Unleash

[@andyotoole261]

i know i speak for the majority of people in the north of england when i say that we just don't care about northern ireland. if you walk around manchester and ask anyone their opinion of people from NI you will find them considered religious nutters. there is little or no understanding of what the problems are and no inclination to find out.

[@llokkee]

Yet u come on here & make an ill-informed statement about the subject! I guess irony escapes you eh kid? Educate urself before making comments son because quite frankly u sound like an idiot who believes everything he's told. Most people in England havent a clue as to what goes on here because they are fed a steady diet of heavily censored, biased bullshit. Do you actually believe the English government would allow their own people to know why there is a problem here? The roots of our conflict lie with English aristocratic greed. Yes, *English* elitists started this war many centuries ago & successive regimes *right up to this day* have consistantly conjured up & implemented policies, you know, the old divide & conquer rule through brutal tactics & oppressive legislation. In the 1970s when the British army were getting their asses handed to them by the IRA they realised the mistake they were making by putting English,Welsh & to a far lesser degree Scottish regiments on the frontline so they took a leaf out of Americas book & aped their strategy in Vietnam with a policy which was known as Vietnamization. A concept drawn up to localise the conflict, the best way of ensuring the border with the north survived. Which of course failed. The inevitable outcome that will befall this failed, sectarian little statelet which was created NOT by the Irish but the scum who rule & who laugh at us all, the great unwashed. What the British came up with was their own version of Vietnamization, Ulsterisation. In conjunction with this policy they implemented criminalisation which had the effect they so desired: Localising the conflict therefore Sectarianising it *yet further* ( Remember sectarianism was something the British settlers & rulers brought with them, we, the Irish did not create such poison nor do we want it ) The old divide & rule which the English are true masters of. So sunshine, I suggest u actually *read* & *learn* before making ill-informed, brutally stupid comments such as the one u made. There is a very sick history here & yes, there are religious nutjobs in this part of Ireland, they're called Loyalists, who feel the need to triumphantly march up & down our streets beating their war drums thousands upon thousands of times every - single - year just to remind their fenian neighbours who the boss is & stir up conflict. And guess what, they are loyal to the English crown. Just like the whole war in Ireland, YOUR creation, not ours. Twat.

[@mattybt400]

And that is a sad reflection of whom?

[@Lucky210309]

llokkee I know you said this four years ago but your comment is overestimating the fact that we as English people don’t care. Northern Ireland could be independent 2moro and no one but the English government would care. The people don’t.

[@TY-gh2yf]

@@llokkee you wrote all that but the irony escapes you. You still don't see the point that many simply don't have an opinion. If they do, it'll be to allow the constitutional majority. If that changes, so be it. Don't really think old queeny will be too butt hurt.

[@kratosboy5557]

The fact is our brothers and sisters in NI are being oppressed for being catholic and that was the case in the Republic before it was liberated by the brave Patriots of Ireland

[@fyrdman2185]

The famine is over, why don't you go home?

[@kratosboy5557]

@@fyrdman2185 cause I’ve spend my Whole adult Life in Alba

[@fyrdman2185]

@@kratosboy5557 You're still Irish.

[@kratosboy5557]

@@fyrdman2185 Glad We agree on Something

[@riceire2445]

Ireland is one country

[@jamiequigley3387]

that behaviour from allistor should be illegal

[@brenguiden5521]

David mcwilliams response to McAllister was the nail in the coffin, Savage, tiociadh ar la

[@kratosboy5557]

It was done by proud Irishman who fought for a free Ireland

[@colummccrudden101]

I came here to find comedy - I found something better.

[@robinsdave1]

Tru entertainment should always make yeah feel good ?!?

[@colummccrudden101]

Yup

[@lucastaylor2321]

Why’d the clip stop there.. I was getting into that.

[@marciasullivan6451]

I'm embarrassed to tell people I'm from here

[@BeingZlatan]

Thankfully most people don't know, nor do they care what happened here. But yeah, it's a fucking disgrace the choices we're given as our representatives (Allister being amongst the worst). I'd stand myself, but i don't have the money, nor the ability to lie at will that most of these cunts have.

[@pauldunneska]

@@BeingZlatan Sure when the border referendum comes in around 2024 you can vote for a United Ireland and rid yourself of the embarrassing occupied stolen six counties of Ulster.

[@PeterGreen-t8c]

His history of Ireland is abysmal. That Rising took place in 1916 when the whole of Ireland was still under British rule.

[@MarkHarrison733]

"British rule" did not exist.

[@nightrunk]

Ah poor oul Jim & Sammy struggling to put across there little "make believe" country that doesn't exist 😂😂😂🇮🇪

[@jasonfogartyflp]

McWilliams is too smart for these lads They can't see the wood from the trees with those orange blinkers on.

[@celticmad1888]

BRITS OUT NOW

[@teamblitz1990]

This is the island of Ireland don't forget that.

[@Dubladeire32]

Hahahaha get that clown a map of Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@rabhaw9629]

if ever you get your united ireland , well on that date you can celebrate .but until then bow down to and celebrate our gracious Queen

[@michaelahern6821]

You'd be happy to lick her dog's shit NO thanks.

[@lfcspectre4335]

Where was Battle Of The Boyne at again Jim? Oh yeah at some foreign country you believe in ya fool.

[@PanglossDr]

Fair is fair. I am a Republican and would be very unhappy to see the establishment of Northern Ireland being celebrated in the South. I'm sure my Unionist friends in the North would have a similar discomfort with celebrating the Rising.

[@doloresfisher596]

Yes but the reason the rising took place was to try and free Ireland from British rule and colonialism and to keep it United the other was to segregate and divide and keep the Catholic or nationalist population down as they did for best part of 60 years .

[@XXOLIVERPXWNAGEX]

By that logic then they shouldn't be celebrating the 12th of July hahaha

[@FearghusMacMurchaidh]

So with his logic there is no irish people in the north?

[@RepairsAndsparesBOT]

Unionists and loyalists are funny lol

[@raybo64]

Bill of rights me arse, the Penal Laws followed the Battle of the Boyne, and they applied equally to Presbyterians and Roman Catholics. Celebrate that!

[@tranceman22]

The 1916 Easter rising runs in complete contradiction to the founding of Northern Ireland. It would be completely mad for N.I. to recognise this as a public holiday considering what it celebrates. If an individual or legal organisation wishes to recognise it then they are perfectly at liberty to do so. There's no need to use antagonistic language about it. However let's be honest about what happened and how this but of history has been "romanticized" to fit a republican agenda. None of the IRB war council 7 had any sort of mandate from the people that they purported to represent None had managed to even get elected to the Dublin council. They were a cabal within a cabal. The IRB were against the rising. When it happened the people of Dublin were outraged by the deaths, injuries and damage to homes and businesses it caused, hundreds dead, thousands wounded. The first victim was an Irishman, an unarmed policeman in his 50's at Dublin castle. A senseless murder. The declaration signed by the 7 shows that they had colluded with the Germans for aid and weapons so they were tried for train and shot. The Malitia was released after a few months of imprisonment. These 7 people had colluded with the power that had committed the infamous RAPE OF BELGIUM whist fighting against their own injustices (ironically). Three was moo real plan or agreement between the 7 as to what to do if they had won. The Declaration of Independence was signed by 7 people. The Ulster Covenant by 450,000 approx. The rising was a failure but it has been romanticized and politicized. The IRB got off lightly. Had this been committed against say the Germans they would probably have executed every last one of the Irish Republican Brigade. As a footnote the 12th is not a public holiday in the Republic, Orange parades are virtually non existent and only happen around the border area. The Republic has with the collusion pig the RC church actively reduced its protestant population by 75% in the last 97 years.

[@TheOriginalEwan]

If said rebellion lead to the Republic of Ireland not being a dominion of the United Kingdom and, in turn, millions more people wanting full independence, then clearly it wasn’t failed.

[@shanemckenna9416]

Martin McGuiness R.I.P.

[@garydevitt5358]

The arrogance of these unionists talking about Ireland like it’s two different countries